An Insight Into Open Source Softwares

By admin, on August 1st, 2010%

My Guest Lecture On “An Insight Into Open Source Softwares” for students of SCSE in Rajaji Hall (Main Building) on 31/07/2010 between 2:30  and 4 pm at VIT University .

Objectives of Lecture

To understand the concept of Open Source
To know about Open Source Technologies
To learn “How to Develop and  Contribute Open Source Projects”

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Ubuntu Tweak – Customise Your Desktop

By admin, on July 21st, 2010%

Ubuntu Tweak is an application designed to configure Ubuntu easier for everyone. It provided many useful desktop and system options that the default desktop environment isn’t provided. It can be download from http://ubuntu-tweak.com/ website.

Ubuntu Tweak

Features of Ubuntu Tweak

View of Basic System Information(Distribution, Kernel, CPU, Memory, etc.)
GNOME Session Control
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Ubuntu 10.04 – Enabling Location Based Address Bar Permanently in Nautilus File Browser

By admin, on July 6th, 2010%

In my previous post ,  Only the key control was given to enable location based address bar , but if you want to enable location based address bar permanently in nautilus File Browser. simply follow these steps,

Goto Terminal and type the given command

#gconf-editor

You will get one new configuration window , In that editor select

apps -> nautilus . . . → Read More: Ubuntu 10.04 – Enabling Location Based Address Bar Permanently in Nautilus File Browser

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University Timetabling System [ Unitime ] in Linux

By admin, on June 27th, 2010%

Steps for Installing and Configuring University Timetabling System [Unitime]
Prerequisites

1. Java 1.5 or latest [ http://java.sun.com ]
2. Mysql 5.x [ http://www.mysql.com ]
3. Tomcat 5.5.x [ http://tomcat.apache.org/]

Installation [Everything has to be done in root mode ]
1. Download the Unitime source file from http://www.unitime.org/ webiste

2. Extarct the tar file into /opt/unitime folder [ #mkdir /opt/unitime]

#tar -xzvf unitime-3.1_bld248.tar.gz  -C /opt/unitime

3. . . . → Read More: University Timetabling System [ Unitime ] in Linux

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How to Reset MySQL Server Password ?

By admin, on June 26th, 2010%

Sometime you might have forgotten your MySQL server password  for connecting to client. At that time while you try MySQL command in your terminal you will get the following error message

#mysql -u root -p

Enter password:
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)

To get around this problem you need to reset the password.  Just . . . → Read More: How to Reset MySQL Server Password ?

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Ubuntu 10.04 – Enabling Address Bar in Nautilus File Browser

By ANTHONIRAJ, on May 29th, 2010%

Tips and Tricks

To Enable nautilus  address bar [text based location] in Ubuntu 10.04 ,

Press CTRL+L   [ L is a small letter]

Nautilus File Browser – Address . . . → Read More: Ubuntu 10.04 – Enabling Address Bar in Nautilus File Browser

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